[FFmpeg-user] Slow speed when sub-clipping .mxf

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 6/21/2023 12:26 PM, Media Mouth wrote:
> Indeed putting the -ss and -t before the -i made all the difference.
> I'm still curious why / what the meaning is.  FFmpeg is quite the mystery box.

Options generally apply to what follows, not what precedes. Putting the seek 
time before the input spec seeks on the input, putting it after seeks on the 
decoded stream.

z!